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burden p^d by our people Is a mere trifle to that borne by
the people of Europe. Mr. Herring tells me he has written
to you on behalf of the Academy to request your assist-
ance for a projected publication of a Book of portraits,
and he has asked me to write to you about it. I am sure
you will do what is right and reasonable about it and shall
not trouble you with sollicitations. The value of such a
work must depend on its execution, and probably the
engravings can be done better and cheaper at Paris than
elsewhere. I hope that long before this reaches you Mrs.
Cooper will be restored to health. Be pleased to remember
us all most respectfully to her and the young Ladies.

Yours most sincerely

Peter Augustus Jay.

Your Dresden letter was very interesting, and did
honor to your prescience.
James Fenimore Cooper, Esq., Paris.

FROM J. E. DE KAY

New York, April i, 1832

A very proper day, doubtless, for the epistle I am
about to indite, but the opportunity presented by Mr.
Lea is too favorable to allow it to escape. I arrived home'
only four days ago from Constantinople. I left this place
in June last and have had a delightful excursion. The
papers have no doubt informed you that Mr. Eckford
sailed from this place in a Corvette ordered by the Sul-
tan, and I made one of the party. If any of my friends
come over me henceforward with their Romes and
Venices and Palestines, I shall ask them if they have
been tossed upon the Euxine or seen the glories of Stam-
boul. It was my original intention to have returned home
via Italy and France, and I accordingly communicated



	1832] JAMES FENIMORE-COOPER 263 burden p^d by our people Is a mere trifle to that borne by the people of Europe. Mr. Herring tells me he has written to you on behalf of the Academy to request your assist- ance for a projected publication of a Book of portraits, and he has asked me to write to you about it. I am sure you will do what is right and reasonable about it and shall not trouble you with sollicitations. The value of such a work must depend on its execution, and probably the engravings can be done better and cheaper at Paris than elsewhere. I hope that long before this reaches you Mrs. Cooper will be restored to health. Be pleased to remember us all most respectfully to her and the young Ladies. Yours most sincerely Peter Augustus Jay. Your Dresden letter was very interesting, and did honor to your prescience. James Fenimore Cooper, Esq., Paris. FROM J. E. DE KAY New York, April i, 1832 A very proper day, doubtless, for the epistle I am about to indite, but the opportunity presented by Mr. Lea is too favorable to allow it to escape. I arrived home' only four days ago from Constantinople. I left this place in June last and have had a delightful excursion. The papers have no doubt informed you that Mr. Eckford sailed from this place in a Corvette ordered by the Sul- tan, and I made one of the party. If any of my friends come over me henceforward with their Romes and Venices and Palestines, I shall ask them if they have been tossed upon the Euxine or seen the glories of Stam- boul. It was my original intention to have returned home via Italy and France, and I accordingly communicated